re: #261 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

How can you possibly give individualized attention, much less as a collective, to those kids? As I understand it, the older ones were responsible for “raising” the younger, and doing the housework and other chores. The only “education” given these kids was indoctrination. Then, a way to be more financially “secure” for the parents and to grift from the public was to get a reality show. And they’ve played that to excess. At one point early on, HS graduate Jim Bob boasted about having so much income he didn’t have to work and could stay home, which of course, he really didn’t except to act as majordomo over the entire enterprise.

This isn’t teaching responsibility so much as it’s exploiting your own children who have no real freedom to be kids and explore their own dreams, get a good education, and be a truly free person with one’s own ideas of how to live.